Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Chili (Zupa’s Copycat)

This is one of my favorite recipes – a copycat version of Zupas chicken enchilada chili recipe. It’s hearty, creamy, and full of lots of yummy ingredients!

The weather has turned cold and we had a little snow the other day which totally warrants soup for dinner, right? I think so. A hot bowl of soup just makes everything better on a cold night. But even better than soup for dinner, is soup made in your slow cooker. This is one of the easiest and most delicious soups you’ll ever make.

Cafe Zupa’s has some amazing soups and their chicken enchilada chili is one of my favorites, so when I found this copycat recipe I was all over it! This soup scored huge at our house. Even Parker, who was a little bugged when I told him were were having chicken enchilada chili (because you know, it’s not tacos or spaghetti), absolutely loved it!

This stuff is so delicious that I’m 100% certain that there will be no complaints when I heat it up for leftovers tonight. Yes, we do leftovers at our house. Do you? I happen to love leftover night because one, it saves me from making dinner and two, it saves me from throwing out food, which I hate to do.

This soup is so, so good. The flavor is amazing and then topped off with crunchy tortilla strips, shredded cheddar cheese, and some sour cream it’s out of this world good! You really need to make this.

In a large slow cooker, add the chicken breasts and both enchilada sauces. Cook for several 2 to 3 hours on high or 4 to 5 hours on low, or until the chicken is cooked and shreds easily. Remove chicken, shred and return to crockpot.

Add all the remaining soup ingredients, except the sour cream and cook for 1 more hour or until heated through.

Comments

Made your soup last night. Another good crock pot recipe. The 2 Tbl of chili powder made me nervous so I only added one and thought it needed some garlic so in went 1 tsp granulated garlic powder. I held off on adding the sour cream right into the whole pot and just put a dollop on top for those that wanted it. It made a lot of soup and I was worried what the sour cream would do when reheated. Thanks again for your recipe. I’d gone to Zupa’s the night before and my daughter couldn’t decide between the Caulifower or Enchilada soup. She was so excited when I told her we were having this. She ended up getting to have both.

I’m pretty sure that Zupa’s Enchilada soup also has some Masa in it. Masa is a Mexican corn meal available at any grocery store. The Chili’s restaurant also has or had a Chicken Enchilada soup that is very similar and it is made close to what your recipe is but with Masa Cornmeal.

I found this on pinterest it was so good! Will be making it again. Even my pickiest eater liked it. I had a red enchilada packet instead of two cans so instead I added the packet with 2 cups of water and a 8 oz can of tomato sauce and then 2 cans of green sauce. And to satisfy the eaters I blended the beans and tomatoes. My husband doesn’t like corn in things but he ate it and didn’t complain. It was so good!!!

Brittnee, all slow cookers cook a little differently, but my slow cooker cooks chicken on low in about 3-4 hours. I suggest just checking on your chicken after about three hours, if it shreds easily then it’s done.

I was so excited to find and make this! Zupa’s chicken enchilada chili is my favorite, and I’ve actually never gotten anything different there.

I don’t know what it is, but this soup didn’t really taste like Zupa’s. I was pretty disappointed. It was, however, delicious and I enjoyed it! The chili powder I think gives it a lot of spice. Unlike Zupa’s, the spiciness was too much for my husband (which doesn’t take much). Again, I did enjoy it, but it didn’t taste to me very much like the real thing. It has all the same big ingredients (beans, chicken, corn, etc.) but doesn’t match.

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[…] One of my family’s favorite soups is Zupas Chicken Enchilada Soup. Obviously, we can’t eat out every time we want it. To complicate things even more, we moved to Washington, and there’s not a Zupas here. Lucky for us, I found a copycat recipe that we all really like. I even won a Chili and Soup Cook Off using this recipe for Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Soup (Zupas Copycat). […]